(Do you feel emotionally exhausted by your mother? Setting boundaries is the solution. Click here to sign up for my 1-day online boundaries workshop.) Question from a reader: My mother, who was and is mentally ill, now also has dementia and forgets what I say, even...

Almost 100 years of living. She was a complicated woman who created complicated relationships. I pray that as she passed, all of the hurt and pain she carried was lifted and that she knew eternal, unconditional love. May we all know that sort of love while we are...

“…there’s a reason why the windshield of a car is so big and the rear view mirror is so small. What’s in front of you is much more important than what’s behind you.” ~ Tara Martin’s take on Joel Osteen In 2011, at the urging of my maternal...

(I wrote a version of this post more than three years ago. In the intervening time, I have started to record some of the conversations I have with my maternal grandmother when I visit her, and I’ve posted some of them on Facebook. I plan to post them here now,...